Category: Environment EN

Global South Voice Their Demands, CAP calls for End to Waste Colonialism As the third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution begins this week to negotiate a global plastics treaty, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) hosted a media briefing to voice the demands of the Global South. Featuring representatives from a coalition of civil...

Day 2: Summary of Events   On the second day of #INC3 negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty, while contact groups continue until the evening, here are #BreakFreeFromPlastic highs  and lows from the plenary and events today. #PlasticsTreaty #INC3 #BreakFreeFromPlastic #BeatPlasticPollution #PlasticsINC Source: Break Free From Plastic

Plastics Treaty March Consumers Association Penang - CAP at the #PlasticsTreatyMarch leading up to the #INC3 of the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty in Nairobi.   #breakfreefromplastic        

Plastic harms our communities from the moment fossil fuels are taken from the earth to when the waste is thrown away. Plastic is poisoning our food, our air, our water, our blood, and the bodies of our children. This is not acceptable. Wealthy countries dump plastic waste on our shores, leaving our governments, waste pickers, and communities to deal with the costs of other people’s mess. This...

Want to learn more about the Global South's Demands for a Strong Plastics Treaty? Join GAIA #Live from Nairobi, Kenya as representatives from Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America come together for a Joint Press Briefing "Global South Voices: We didn't start the plastics crisis, but together we can end it." Date: 14 November 2023 Time: 4pm Nairobi, Kenya Comfort Gardens Hotel We will also be...

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) strongly opposes the proposed changes in the Draft Kelantan State Structure Plan (Draf Rancangan Struktur Negeri - RSN), 7 Local Plans (Rancangan Tempatan - RT), and 1 Special Area Plan (Rancangan Kawasan Khas - RKK). This is because they contradict the Development Plan /National Physical Plan (Rancangan Fizikal Negara ke-4) at the national level, which needs to be...

Plastic is a growing crisis with devastating impacts on the environment, human health, human rights, environmental justice, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, biodiversity, and climate.  As numerous studies have demonstrated, plastic has been found everywhere, not only in ecosystems and the atmosphere but also in the food we eat, the water we drink, and even inside our bodies. Thus global...

The government must address the sharp increase of plastics used for increasingly popular online deliveries as failure to do so would negate its plan to ban single-use bags in retail settings nationwide by 2025, environmental groups said. They said this was especially important given the explosion in popularity of e-commerce and food delivery services since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in...

From product placement for unnecessary gadgets to meat-centred cooking, TV can make us think unsustainable is normal When you log in to your favorite streaming service and pull up a cooking show, chances are you’re just looking for a bit of entertainment – maybe even to shut your brain off for a while. But if what you’re watching is constantly exposing you to images of sizzling steaks,...

A rare earths processing plant run by Mitsubishi Chemicals in Bukit Merah, Malaysia was blamed for birth defects and leukaemia cases in the local community. The plant, which was shut down in 1994, had no long-term waste facility which resulted in radioactive waste leakage. Mitsubishi Chemicals spent US$100 million on the clean-up and donated to the local community in an out-of-court settlement....